Cake Pops

Ingredients:

• 1 box of strawberry cake mix (made according to instructions)
• 1 container of buttercream icing
• 2 packages of white chocolate Candy Quick or white chocolate bark
• 1 package (about 50) of lollipop sticks (purchased at Michaels Craft Store)
• Assorted colored sprinkles
• Rectangular styrofoam block (4x10" -- also purchased at Michaels)

Directions:

Bake cake according to instructions on the back of the box. Cool the cake completely. Once the cake is cooled, in a large bowl crumble the cake with your fingers into very fine crumbs. Add the entire container of icing to the crumbled cake and mix with a spatula until fully incorporated into the cake. With a cookie scoop, scoop cake mixture into balls and gently roll with your hands until formed into a small ball (about the size of a ping pong ball).
Arrange the cake balls on a large cookie sheet. Once you are finished forming the cake mixture into balls, gently place a lollipop stick into each ball (about 1/2-3/4 way into the ball -- the stick should pointing upward). Once you are finished placing the sticks into the cake balls, place the cookie sheet into the freezer for about 1-2 hours until the cake balls are firm. **Note: If you do not let them harden it is difficult to roll them in the chocolate bark because they will fall apart.
When they are finished in the freezer, melt the Candy Quick according to the instructions. Dip each cake ball into the Candy Quick until fully covered in chocolate. Insert the cake pop into a piece of styrofoam (the chocolate may drip a little bit). You can do a few of these at a time and then shake sprinkles over the top, but don't wait until the very end because the chocolate will be hard and the sprinkles will not stick.

**Note: I made these for a baby shower and put the baby's name on the piece of styrofoam**